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ABOUT THE AUTHOR The author, Fortune Emerence Chinemerem Nwaiwu was born to the family of Rev. S.A.N.D. Nwaiwu from Umuezu Egbeke Etche Rivers State of Nigeria. He obtained his Master's Degree in Applied English Linguistics in 2014 from University of Calabar. At his tender age, he received a calling from God to serve as a minister. When he was an undergraduate student in 2002─2006 at Rivers State College of Education, Rumuolumeni Port Harcourt, he came back to his home town for “Women's Area Council Meeting" organized by Apostolic Christian Faith Mission. It was there that God declared his good will to him. A prophetess dragged him out before the public and told him that he would be a minister of God. A year later, a group of Baptist's evangelists who came from Lagos to plant a church in his home town likewise prophesied same to him before his parents and siblings as they visited him in his house. This divine calling continued through numerous prophets until Pastor...

SERMON 24 BUY THE TRUTH AND SELL IT NOT         Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction and understanding"-----Proverb 23:23 KJV. The word of God is the truth that all men should seek after. Everything written in the scripture is true and the truth is centered on Jesus Christ because he is the God of the truth. This peculiar fact is obviously seen in the gospel book of John 14:6, Jesus told Thomas, "I am the way, the truth and the life" Truth means sincerity as opposed to falsehood. In our society, truth is always bitter in the ears of unbelievers. This contributed to the reason why some people oppose the teachings of our Lord Jesus. Christ is the only way who came to draw all men to God. Through him, there is salvation and forgiveness of sin. He is the truth because he always tells us what we ought to do. His word is full of wisdom and having spiritual insights to understand the mind of our Creator. Buy the truth: This theologic...

SERMON 23 A LIVING DOG IS BETTER THAN A DEAD LION A Sermon Preached on 07/02/2016 There is hope for the living. As they say, “It is better to be a living dog than a dead lion"--Ecclesiastes 9:4 NLT I worship you O God! Let us be on our feet, praise his holy name, magnify him, he is the Lord Almighty, the Creator of the universe, the preserver of our lives, our great provider, Abraham called him Jehovah Jire. Let us worship him, he is the king of kings, The Lord of lords. The only God and there is none like him. Haliluah! Brethren, I want to remind you today that there are many people whose condition of living is extremely terrible. They wish to die rather than to live and face their excruciating condition. Some people are in harsh conditions and looking for help, while some live comfortably with everything they need in life. They eat three square meals in a day. Their lives are characterized by merriment and luxury but they may be contracted with sickness and perhaps di...

sermon 22 YOU ARE A DOCTOR "And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick" Luke 9:2. Read Acts 28:7-10, James 5:15-15 W e have been commissioned to preach the gospel of grace and to heal the sick. This divine mandate is supreme and powerful. It has made God's own children to be spiritual doctors. It is believed that a spiritual doctor supersedes a medical doctor. A spiritual doctor works by the authority and the grand influence of a supernatural Being. Near the sea shore where Paul and his co-workers landed after their shipwreck experience at sea, they encountered Publius, the chief official of the Island who owned estate. This man, Publius welcomed them. He also hospitalized them for three days. Unfortunately, Publius' father was seriously sick with fever and dysentery. This kind of sickness might have put Publius in a great worry and in premonition. Perhaps he had gone to different places looking for cure of his father's illness but ...

sermon 20. The god that sees your troubles A sermon preached on 12th June, 2017. “O Jacob, how can you say the LORD does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?”─ Isaiah 40:27 NLT. T oday, know that anyone who worships God must have confidence in him, and know that he sees his troubles. You must believe that your troubles are always known by God. He sees you when you stand up at that moment of your troubles, he sees you when you sit down in gloom with a broken heart weighed down by worries of life, weeping as your troubles are raging like a turbulent sea, he sees you even when you have money or food to eat, he sees you when your employer has finally terminated your job, he sees you when your spouse is no more your spouse, he sees you even when the whole world has turned against you, and he sees you as you moan over your health condition. Then why should you say God does not see your troubles? Why should you say God has forgotten anything about you...

sermon 20. The god that sees your troubles A sermon preached on 12th June, 2017. “O Jacob, how can you say the LORD does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?”─ Isaiah 40:27 NLT. T oday, know that anyone who worships God must have confidence in him, and know that he sees his troubles. You must believe that your troubles are always known by God. He sees you when you stand up at that moment of your troubles, he sees you when you sit down in gloom with a broken heart weighed down by worries of life, weeping as your troubles are raging like a turbulent sea, he sees you even when you have money or food to eat, he sees you when your employer has finally terminated your job, he sees you when your spouse is no more your spouse, he sees you even when the whole world has turned against you, and he sees you as you moan over your health condition. Then why should you say God does not see your troubles? Why should you say God has forgotten anything about you...

sermon 19. A BORROWED LIFE “But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?”─ Luke 12:20 Berean Study Bible. When we gather for a funeral service, it reminds us that death is inevitable, it reminds us that one day, we will equally die. Having conscious of dying should make us to have a good relationship with our God because he has the power to destroy both the flesh and the soul. I want to tell you today that everybody lives a borrowed life. We own nothing about our lives, our lives can terminate at any time. We don’t know when, and where the owner─ the lender of this life can take it back from us. From the parable of the rich fool in the gospel book of Luke 12:13-21, we see that there was a certain rich man who failed to acknowledge God as the source of his life. All his mind was pre-occupied by the worldly riches. As a man who had enough crops, he planned to hoard them, store them up while t...

sermon 18. Destroying Every Stronghold A sermon preached on Wednesday 22nd March, 2017. A stronghold can be a source of protection from any trouble. This is the case when God is our stronghold. Tonight, I’d like to speak on destroying every strong hold that is keeping us from knowing the true God, and possessing our possessions. So many of us have strongholds which we must deal with. The stronghold may be fear, bitterness, unforgiveness, unbelief, sinful thought, alcohol, drug abuse, greed and pride. All these are the internal enemies that hold many people captive. Before we may be able to fight against our enemies, we must first kill those internal forces lurking in us. If we can kill our internal enemies, forsake them, it’ll be very easy for us to destroy the external strongholds working against us. You may ask, how we can destroy the strongholds which enemies use to attack us. If you follow the followings, using the authority in the persons of God, Jesus Christ, His word...

sermon 17. Are you a friend of Jesus? A sermon preached on Sunday March 9, 2017. “Little did I know that it’s rare to have a good friend,” said one elderly man when his friends deserted him. With some good thought about the man’s saying, I was led to sing a hymn titled: “What A Friend We Have In Jesus.” This hymn was composed by Joseph M. Scriven, who went through hard time. At his youthful age, he gave up his military career as a result of his ill health. A lady he wanted to marry died in the eve of the wedding in a drowning accident. Scriven later migrated to Rice Lake Ontario, and encountered another lady for marriage. Soon, the lady died from illness before the wedding too, so Scriven had to live with friends since there was no job because of hard economy. His friends became hostile to him, and failed to help him. Scriven comforted himself with the Sermon on the Mount. As he became penniless, his friends disassociated him. Scriven learnt an unforgettable lesson from his friends...

Sermon 16. The God of eleventh hour “And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said unto them, why stand ye here all the day idle?”─ Matt. 20:6 KJV. B rethren, do you know that an “eleventh hour” is an idiomatic expression which means the last hour─ the last possible moment for doing something [before it’s too late]. From the “Parable of the Vineyard workers” told in Matt. 20:1-7, we see a set of people who were not employed to work in the vineyard of God. They were like applicants seeking for employments but no one was hiring them, and so they stood idle perhaps in a main road or street. When there was a massive recruitment, their applications were not honored, and in the subsequent one, no one considered them but it was by God’s mercy that they were found standing idle at the late hour, a time they might have considered themselves as unlucky fellows, a time their children would look unto them for food, a time they became hopeless. Christ saw t...

sermon 15. FOLLOW GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS WITHOUT DEVIATING A Sermon Preached on Sunday 4th June, 2017. “Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded”─ Prov. 13:13. A  story was told about one sick girl in a hospital. Oxygen was put in her both nose and mouth to enable her breath. A young man visited her in the hospital and found her in her sick bed with the oxygen through which she breathed. The man sat on the same bed without knowing that he placed his right foot on the oxygen pipe supplying air to the girl. The girl brought out her pen and a piece of paper and wrote: “You are keeping your right foot on the oxygen supplying me air. Could you please remove your leg from there?” The girl gave the man this instruction but the man put the written note in the pocket of his shirt, and kept on talking with the girl until the girl died because, the man had snubbed to read the instruction given to him. Brethren, what the story teaches us i...

sermon 14. Don’t allow satan to frustrate your life A Sermon Preached on Sunday 28th May, 2017. “Troubles multiply for those who chase after gods”─ Psalm 16:4. O ne Igbo proverb says, “An ocean swallows anyone he sees.” Thus, will an ocean swallow somebody who is not in it? It is certainly no. We now link this Igbo proverb with our sermon today. Though trouble is everywhere, we face it in our day-to-day life, but it multiplies to those who seek after gods, gods made of woods, gold and silver. A woman married a man with many wives, and she wanted her husband to love her and forget about the other wives. She decided to get a love portion from one native doctor, but the native doctor gave her a poisonous charm which she added to her husband’s food. Her husband ate and then died. This wasn’t what she expected, and since then, troubles began to erode her dreams. Her husband died leaving her with no children, and then the other women began to chase her away from the house. Satan is a...

sermon 13. OVERCOMING THE PROBLEM OF FAMINE “In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword”─ Job 5:20 B rethren, at this critical time of economic recession and hardship all over the world, I want to give you a word of encouragement so that you can place your trust continually in the LORD. We have all heard series of stories about what people did as to cope with this economic hardship. We heard about a woman who confronted her neighbor for food and was disappointed. Later on, the woman having known that her neighbor had gone out, she went straight to her house, broke her door and packed all the food of her neighbor. As Christians, we consider this attitude as evil. No matter how harsh and hard the famine would be, we have some places in the scriptures that could help us to endure the problem of famine. Eliphaz, a friend to Job, is convinced that in time of famine, God saves (Job 5:20). This belief is also held by King Solomon. He says, the LORD will n...

sermon 12. WHO IS THIS MAN? “Who is this man?” they asked each other! “Even the wind and waves obey him!”─ Mark 4:41 From the text, mark 4:35-41, we see that the followers of Jesus Christ did not know whom they were following. To hem Christ was seen as a man. They never thought of him as the Son of God that does every impossibility to become possible. As soon as he opened his mouth to rebuke the wind that put the mindset of his disciples in the state of premonition, and the wind and waves obeyed him, his disciples wondered about his true identity. They asked- Who is this man? This question conveys the idea that they were surprised to see wind and wave obey the command of Jesus Christ. Most times, people limit the power of God, especially when there is danger. As the fierce storm tried to break apart the boat and the disciples went to ask Jesus as he was sleeping─ “Teacher don’t you care that we are going to drown.” Jesus demonstrated to them that anyone with him doesn’t need to be a...

sermon 11. Look up to jesus “So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!”─ Numbers 21:9. NLT. Jesus Christ is the only way for salvation. If we could look up to him, we shall live. The story about the Israelites wandering in the wilderness after the death of Aaron reveals man’s lack of gratitude to God. We see that Israelites complained of their tedious long journey to the Promised Land. They grew impatient and then tried to rebel against Moses and God. They no longer appreciate the manna─ the food that God provided for them, instead, they needed the food of the Egyptians. This is an inherent nature of man. People do not appreciate what is given to them. The Manna which God provided for them as food, was then considered horrible. In this case, they despised the miracle of God for bringing such food for them, and stopped looking for God for help. Instead, they needed to be slave and...

sermon 10. Don’t Rejoice When Your Enemies Fall Don’t rejoice when your enemies fall; don’t be happy when they stumble. For the LORD will be displeased with you and will turn his anger from them”─ Prov. 24:17-18. I have seen under the sun people that rejoice over the downfall of their enemies. I’ve also seen people that bought new clothes, shoes, and cooked palatable food because of the doom fallen on their enemies. Such people don’t show pity nor love for their enemies. You may claim the fact that Mirian composed a song for the glory of God when God hauled the armies of Pharaoh in the Red Sea, and why you shouldn't rejoice. A true Christian shows love even to his enemies, and it is this love that can make such a Christian to show concern to his foe when a tragedy has befallen him. At the time of Job’s depression, he protested for his innocence. One of the declarations he made is─ “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil f...

sermon 9. FORSAKING ALL FOR CHRIST A Sermon Preached on Sunday 11/03/2018) "Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?" -- Matthew 19:27 BBE. Introduction A lady left her parents, relatives and her position in church as an usher and choir mistress to follow a man that had many fortunes. She had refused to marry some men who wanted her hand in marriage. But now she had seen a man driving one Jeep, she left everything and then followed him to live with him. Later, the rich man impregnated her, and near to her child delivery, she was asked by the husband to return home to deliver the baby. The following day, she returned home, and two days later she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. It was really a great joy because since she had given birth to a son, the man would be pleased. In most African places, a woman who gives birth to a son has a full right in the family she is married to. But, is it the case o...

sermon 8. Don't Share Your Secrets A sermon preached by Nigerian Minister Fortune Emerence Chinemerem Nwaiwu on 18th February, 2018. "A gossip goes around telling secrets, but those who are trustworthy can keep a confidence"--- Proverb 11:13 NLT. Introduction A man was seen at the front of a bank inserting his ATM card into an ATM machine, and he was using his hands and body to cover where he was putting his ATM secret PIN (security code). His reason for doing that was that he did not want people to know about his PIN, to avoid being swindled or defrauded. He could tell people the bank he operates with, but he would never disclose his secret PIN to them. He knows that his PIN is a password to his blessings and a source of his livelihood. If he tells people about his secret, he could be ruined and doomed. I then remembered a man who told his son all about his ATM card PIN, and his son secretly took it to withdraw money. Thank God that the son was apprehended b...

sermon 7.  Put Yourself in Someone Else's Shoes A sermon preached on 11/02/2018 "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him for He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust"-- Psalm 103:13-14 KJV. God as a father of all that dwell on Earth shows compassion to his children because He knows they are dust. There could be a time God would vent His fury on man's wickedness, but when He remembers that we are made of dust, He relents because he knows how weak any person made of dust is, capable of having many trials and sorrows. Now, as Christians, never forget to continue showing compassion to anyone, putting yourselves in their shoes---their situations, getting to know what they are passing through and the factors that are causing them to react in the manner they do. In this sermon, we shall consider two prime questions that will aid us to consider someone else’s problems as paramount as ours to solve. What will...

sermon 6. GOD, REPLACE MY EVIL YEARS WITH GOOD A Sermon preached on 28th January, 2018. "Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery; replace the evil years with good"--- Psalm 90:15 NLT Moses uttered this prayer having remembered the forty years of exile in Egypt. He knew that God's children had suffered greatly, and had been afflicted severely under the yoke of enslavement. And now is a time of plea, making petitions to God, Lord, make us glad because we have been in Egypt for forty years living a life full of misery, a life that is not comfortable to us, a life of pains and grief, a life we get drowned in tears for many years. But this time, we ask you to replace all our evil years with good. Note: Your evil years shall be replaced with good, death with life, replacing poverty with riches, failure with success, infertility with fertility, sickness with good health. Job 42:10 gives us a clear picture of the sermon. For many years that Job had be...

sermon 5. HIS EYE IS UPON THE SPARROWS A Sermon Preached by Fortune E.C. Nwaiwu on 21st of January, 2018 at A.C.F.M Umuozoche Igbodo Etche Rivers State of Nigeria. "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father." Mt 10:29 A flock of Sparrows are species of birds, the least among God's creatures. Such birds are not valued by men, and the price of them is as cheap as nothing. One penny which is equivalent of one naira is the price of two sparrows. Despite that no one values sparrows, God still watches them, no one of them will fall to the ground without God knowing it. Note: No challenge of life that will frustrate you without God being aware of it.  People may not value you, but you are more valuable than a flock of sparrows. I pray for you that this year heaven and earth will value you. Don't worry, it may be that years ago, enemies tried to frustrate you, nothing you planned worked out for y...

sermon 4. Courage, Don’t Stumble A Sermon Preached on Sunday 15/07/2018. Matthew 11:1-6 I llustration: There was a young man whose mother was seriously ill, he then fasted and prayed for God to heal his mother, and yet, his mother did not survive. On that day the man’s mother died, he regretted ever going to church. Since then his life became terrible, he found solace in drinking alcohol and smoking until he was diagnosed of lung cancer and pneumonia. The spiritual problems of the man He worships God when things are well with him. He’s not a core Christian, he’s like a dry leaf or a chaff that can be tossed by wind at a moment of trials. He fails to realize the word of Christ that anyone who believes in him, even if he dies will live again. The man’s reaction to life challenges reminded us to the teachings of Christ in Matt. 7:24-27 about the nature of people that adhere to his teaching, and people that do not follow it up. Christ states that people that listen...